jjav

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by jjav 3d ago
Who pays is not that simple. The employee pays for their insurance, out of their total comp package. Typically that gets divided into a part the employer pays behind the scenes and a portion that gets declared on the employees W2 and then
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by jjav 4d ago
Technically it has comprehensive as well although it's a moot point. My deductible is $1000 and they'll just say the car is worth less than that, so they'll never pay anything. I guess I should reduce it to liability only but
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by jjav 4d ago
Did you know insurance works by pooling and sharing the risk amongst a group? The larger the group to share the risk and cost, the more efficient it becomes. If you try to buy health insurance for all your employees as a tiny employer, cost
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by jjav 4d ago
If that is being sold as new, it is a leftover model that has been sitting in the dealer lot for a year or so, depreciated accordingly. A quick search shows me a bunch of 2025 Nissan Versas for sale between 16K-17K, so someone buying this d
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by jjav 4d ago
Unfortunately the US is moving hard in the opposite direction, making cycling choices less achievable. https://ctmirror.org/2026/03/12/bike-walking-trails-lose-fed...
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by jjav 4d ago
> when repairs get more costly than what it's worth I've never understood why that would be a relevant criteria? If the car is cheap enough, it's easy for any repair to cost more. So what? The comparison to make is not whe
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by jjav 4d ago
Not even close. For example insurance on my early 90s Mazda is $192. Insurance on my partner's three year old VW is almost $900. I could have a fleet of four older Mazdas and still be cheaper to insure.
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by jjav 4d ago
> to fix your vehicle when something needs replacement every month or two You'd have to be spectacularly unlucky for that, many sigmas away from the bell curve of average car experience. Having owned lots of older cars, typically re
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by jjav 4d ago
Two of the three warranty covered it. I don't remember why the ECU repair was not fully covered by warranty (that was over 25 years ago) but I do remember the sting of paying for it since we were younger and poorer at the time. I'
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by jjav 4d ago
This link does now show a single new 2026 model car under 20K, what is the point?
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by jjav 4d ago
Also be aware that even if you buy comprehensive insurance for an old car (don't do it), they won't actually cover anything useful. If there is an accident, the insurance company will say: Your car is only worth $700 per blue book
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by jjav 4d ago
You can't legally forego insurance (at least in the USA). But comprehensive insurance is silly to pay for an old car so you buy only liability so it's a lot cheaper.
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by jjav 4d ago
> If it fits, it's not the wrong year. I once put an exhaust manifold from a 95 Civic into a 98 Civic No such thing as wrong year nor wrong model, or even wrong brand as long as it works! Honda in particular lots of parts interchang
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by jjav 4d ago
> There's an incredible amount of value in simply not worrying if your car will run when you need it to. True, being able to know for sure you can get to work (or wherever important) is a huge peace of mind. And more than peace of m
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by jjav 4d ago
> we cannot rule out that Google deliberately introduced or wanted to keep the leak in place I'd say a lot stronger than "cannot rule out". Regardless of how it was introduced, if it is now known and the issue was closed w
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by jjav 5d ago
> I'm sure there are always some models available under 20K Since you are sure, can you name a few? You can't because none exist. There are no new cars in the USA for less than 20K. The alternatives offered here are nonsensical
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by jjav 5d ago
> I continued to drive that car, until my neighbors complained that the “tank noise” was waking them up in the morning. Curious why not simply replace the exhaust flange? Cheap and easy repair.
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by jjav 8d ago
Because LG is a large corporation and if there is something we have learned (or had proven) in 2026 is that laws don't apply if you oligarch hard enough.
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by jjav 10d ago
> "TiVo still exists?" Certainly that's my reaction that made me click on this. Hard to believe. Never used TiVo but I ran a MythTV box for a long time, it was really awesome. But it's been ~15+ years or so haven&#x27
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by jjav 10d ago
> packing lots of signal into fewer words That is not descriptive of any AI output I've ever seen. Massive walls of words that could've been expressed in 2-3 well-written sentences, that's the norm for AI.
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by jjav 10d ago
I wonder who might be willing to fund/pay access to every byte unencrypted.
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by jjav 10d ago
> FFS, Biden won on the most left-leaning platform of any politician in history. This is completely disconnected from reality. Biden would have been considered a republican in any era except the current hyper-extremist times.
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by jjav 10d ago
> I want my boss shaking me awake at 5am shoving adderall into my mouth Nicely expressed.
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by jjav 11d ago
> Is the Economist seriously suggesting we should roll back workers and renters rights because AI makes it too easy for the average Joe to actually get those rights? I don't know about the Economist nor about the UK, but in the USA
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by jjav 11d ago
> A twenty line for loop. It overengineers most things. Anecdote I like to tell.. I was working on a financial planning software, intentionally purely vibe coded as an experiment. I eventually discovered AI had implemented seven duplicat
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by jjav 11d ago
> You could sell those and have enough money to pay for hosted inference for years. From a quick search a 3090 looks to go for about 1500-2000 USD. So let's say $4K for two. I'm spending far over $1K/month (employer-paid)
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by jjav 11d ago
Yes you are absolutely correct.
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by jjav 11d ago
> People really have a twisted idea about how corporate America works. Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand for low-end, low-margin Macs via bot armies. This is absolutely how how cor
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by jjav 12d ago
I suspect because we don't regularly hear of masked armed thugs in Switzerland beating up, sometimes killing or throwing into concentration camps innocent people who were looking to immigrate. Nothing wrong with making immigration laws
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by jjav 12d ago
> search my old chats easily Don't rely on chat history. Have it write and maintain summary files that you can import into different sessions, at least for anything important.

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